Word: swayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saddam has been Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian President has backed his rhetoric with muscle by contributing 38,500 troops to the allied coalition. What is surprising is that, contrary to some reports, most of Mubarak's 56 million countrymen support his stance on the war and have not fallen sway to Saddam's attempts to turn the conflict into a battle of Arab vs. West. Ordinary Egyptians show no inclination to mob the streets in support of Iraq as hundreds of thousands of other Arabs have done in cities from Amman to Nouakchott. When a small band of demonstrators assembled...
During the century after Muhammad's death in 632, Muslim conquerors established sway from Spain to the borders of India. Islamic scholars of the era emphasized militaristic verses of the Koran over those that counsel peacemaking. Muslims spoke of the earth as being divided between the dar ul- Islam (realm of Islam) and the dar ul-harb (realm of war), implying a need for ongoing combat to extend the faith's domain. In succeeding centuries, as Muslims consolidated a multinational empire, the language of militant jihad faded...
...horror during prime time. How discouraging as well, after the freedom that swept Eastern Europe following 40 years of communist dictatorship. Because of that transformation, the possibility of massive war was supposedly lifted: the nukes were being destroyed. We were not totally lulled. We knew that madmen still held sway, messianic tyrants riveted by the Nietzschean principle that power is a good in itself. We felt bad for those subjected to such belief, but we felt ourselves immune. We were wrong -- and now it again falls to Americans to set matters right. Railing against the truth will not help...
...scores don't bode well for [the applicant's] case.... He'd make a fine addition to the team if the coaches go all out for him, but that's what it would take." Do appeals from debate-team advisors and Phillips Brooks House officers hold similar sway...
...original case of irredentism, the desire of Italian nationalists to seize lands governed by Austria -- Italia irredenta, or unredeemed Italy -- was a complicating factor in World War I. Nor does the trouble necessarily end when irredentists achieve their goals. Tibet, after centuries under the sway of China, declared complete independence in 1913, only to be invaded by Chinese troops in 1951. Largely as a result, India and China fought a border...